Tip #65, 12-17-2010

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Tip# Date Subject 1 August 2009 490 ;800 punctuation (series statements) 2 September 2009 Training manual online ; Bib, Formats, & Standards 3 September 2009 Column picker 4 September 2009 Cover art in OPAC 5 September 2009 082 MARC field 6 October 2009 Book measurements 7 October 2009 Author & performers in the title proper 8 October 2009 Matching points 9 October 2009 Copyright dates in 260 field 10 October 2009 Spaces between initials in personal names 11 November 2009 Main vs. added entry – multiple authors 12 November 2009 Merging for busy CAT1 cataloger 13 November 2009 Edition statements (250 field) 14 November 2009 5xx cheat sheet for DVDs 15 December 2009 ISBNs in the 020 field 16 December 2009 Illustrations and illustrators 17 December 2009 5xx Cheat sheet for sound recordings 18 January 2010 Multiple works by same author – no coll. title 19 January 2010 Call number searches 20 January 2010 GMDs 21 January 2010 Discard/Weed status ; Copy protection option 22 February 2010 Fixed fields & the OPAC 23 February 2010 Punctuation in the title proper 24 February 2010 Large print books 25 February 2010 Helpful websites 26 March 2010 MARC fields to delete 27 March 2010 Street dates 28 March 2010 Library vs. trade editions on audiobooks 29 March 2010 Audience and running time fixed fields (DVDs) 30 April 2010 Cataloging Playaways 31 April 2010 CIP record reminders 32 April 2010 Matching 028 fields 33 April 2010 Blu-ray discs 34 April 2010 Some 949 should not be deleted 35 May 2010 Vertical files – original cataloging 36 May 2010 Adding subject headings 37 May 2010 Finding a record in EI 38 May 2010 Attaching to a 1st edition record (250 field) 39 June 2010 Fixed fields for graphic novels 40 June 2010 More than one series statement on a record 41 June 2010 Place of publication (260 field) 42 June 2010 Unnumbered pages & multiple number sequences 43 July 2010 Transferring items & volumes 44 July 2010 Subject subdivision subfields v, x, y, & z (6xx fields) 45 July 2010 Cataloging book club books 46 July 2010 LCSH change for ‘cookery’ 47 August 2010 Numeration in series – new procedure 48 August 2010 Multiple records for some magazine titles 49 August 2010 586 Awards note 50 August 2010 Deleting multiple items 51 September 2010 Parallel titles for foreign language films 52 September 2010 Age protection reminder 53 September 2010 Read-along books and the 300 field 54 September 2010 Author's names in the 100 field 55 October 2010 Reminders for the 490 and 8xx fields (Series Statements) 56 October 2010 Changing the Item status when materials are being repaired 57 October 2010 Listservs for Catalogers 58 October 2010 Contents Notes and Summaries in MARC records 59 October 2010 Problems with the LitF (Literary Form) Fixed Field 60 November 2010 Strange spaces or colons in the 245 Field 61 November 2010 Multiple home pages for your Internet Browser 62 November 2010 What is an illustration? Guidelines for the 300 field 63 December 2010 Multiple subtitles in the 245 field 64 December 2010 Price information in the 020 field 65 December 2010 Tip of the Week Index

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Tip #64, 12-10-10

Price information in the 020 field

Please do not add the item price in the 020 field when importing or editing MARC records in Evergreen. Because we are a consortium, multiple items are often attached to each record and there can be variations in pricing.

The price of your library's holdings can easily be recorded at the item level, on the copy editor screen.

If you find a price already in a record that you import or while editing, please delete that subfield.

Tip #63, 12-3-2010

Multiple subtitles in the 245 field

Subfield 'b' is not repeatable in a 245 field. If you have an item with more than one parallel title, a parallel title and a subtitle, multiple subtitles, or more than one subsequent title, do not add another |b, but just separate the pieces of information with the appropriate preceding punctuation.

A parallel title is always preceded by a space-equals sign-space, a subtitle is always preceded by a space-colon-space, and a subsequent title is always preceded by a space-semicolon-space.